Desert Collection (page 15)

WW2 - Free French Troops in Africa salute the flag, aided by five buglers. Date: circa 1943

Smiling Moroccan Man - Tangiers with a colourful overgarment and gold ring in his right ear. Date: circa 1909

Algerian Tuareg Man
An absolutely superb portrait photograph (reproduced on a postcard) of a Tuareg tribe of the far southeastern Algeria, deep into the Sahara. Date: 1905

Three boys on a desert island attract a passing ship using their robes and spears as signal flags. Date: 1898

Three boys on a desert island captured by an indigenous man, who nails their packing case clothing to a long pole and carries them away midst weeping sore and wailing. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on a desert island meet an indigenous man Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island vanquish a rhinoceros
Three schoolboys on desert island bravely vanquish a rhinoceros using their makeshift bows and arrows. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island shoot at sparrows using makeshift bows and arrows made out of laces, bones and saplings. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island have to wear packing cases
Three schoolboys, washing up on desert island, have to resort to wearing empty wooden packing cases. Date: 1898

French Mobile Telegraph post - Southern Tunisian Desert
French Mobile Outdoor Wireless Telegraph post - Southern Tunisian Desert - WWI era. Date: circa 1915

Tuareg Warrior - North Afrca
Tuareg Warrior (Twareg / Touareg) - North Africa. Ridng away on his camel after a successful raid - the trophy of his enemy (his head) dangles from the saddle! Date: 1880s

Midday Prayers in the desert - Algeria
An Algerian man kneels alongside his camel and undertakes his midday prayers in the direction of Mecca. Date: circa 1920s

The Desert Inn, Palm Springs, Caifornia - East Entrance Date: 1942

Superstitution Mountain - Apache Trail - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Superstitution Mountains, Apache Trail - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1920s

A Pack Outfit in the desert - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Giant Cactus (Sahuaro) in bloom - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Species of Yucca plant in Bloom (Soap Weed) - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Giant Cacti (Sahuaro) - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Cholla Cactus - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Barrel cactus on the desert - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Painted Cliffs - Apache Trail - Arizona, USA. The Apache Trail is known as the greatest scenic highway in America, 120 miles long between Phoenix and Globe

The Silk Road - Camel Train in Soviet Central Asia, crossing the desert. Date: 1933

Saudi Arabia - Madain Saleh - Nabatean Tomb Date: 1976

Camel Driver/rider Date: circa 1910s

Bedouines Hut near El-Arish (Sinai, Israel)
Bedouines Hut near El-Arish (Sinai Peninsula, Egypt) - with a British military camp visible in the background. Certainly a compact and bijou residence (one previous owner)

Middle Eastern Landscape, by Auguste Bouchet (1831-1889). Date: 1867

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket during a jet-assisted take-off from the Muroc test facility in the Mojave Desert

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket at low altitude over Mojave Desert
Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket at low altitude over the Mojave Desert

Supermarine Spitfire of the Desert Air Force being serviced in a farmyard at an advanced landing ground in Italy

Alexander the Greats army crossing Baluchistan, 325BC
Alexander the Greats army crossing the inhospitable coastal desert of Baluchistan, Mekran, while vultures swarm over head. Date: 325BC

Six million year old fossiliferous rocks located in Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Caloprymnus campestris, Desert rat-kangaroo
The Desert-rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) is an extinct marsupial that lived in Australia. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2010

Opalised snails and clam
Found in the South Australia town of Coober Pedy, these ancient snail and clam shells have been preserved in semi-precious opal

Protocaratops skull from Mongolia
This dinosaur lived during the Cretaceous period about 80 million years ago. This skull. roughly the size of a bear s, was found in Mongolia

Fossil Wood
Fossilised palm from the North African desert that supposedly carries a curse

Visitors at the Natural History Museum, London
Visitor viewing an a skeleton of a Dinosaur in the Gobi Desert exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London 1997

Felis silvestris ornata, Asian steppe wildcat
Felis ornata. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Geological timescale
A diagram showing geological time on earth as expressed in a spiral starting with earth in a molten state and progressing through deserts to the rise of mountain ranges and volcanoes

Gypsum crystals - A desert rose
Gypsum is comprised of (hydrated calcium sulphate). It forms from the evaporation of highly saline waters producing this ornate arrangement of crystals

Permian desert
An artists impression of the Permian desert with huge sandunes and sandstone mountains (290 to 248 million years ago) in Northern England

Concretions

Permian Britain
An artists impression of Permian (290 to 248 million years ago) Britain from space, with desert lands and the Zechstein sea

Protoceratops eggshell
Fossilized Protoceratops eggshell that was discovered in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. They date back to around 100 million years ago to the Upper Cretaceous period. Protoceratops was a herbivore

Varanus eremius and Varanus gilleri
Rusty desert monitor (Varanus eremius) and pigmy mulga monitor (Varanus gilleri). Plate 8 from Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia (1896)

Allactaga euphratica, Euphrates jerboa
Afghan jerboa. Annotated watercolour drawing by Oliva Fanny Tonge (1858-1949), from one of 16 sketchbooks presented to the Natural History Museum in 1952

Sylvia nana, desert warbler
Desert warbler egg specimens

Desert rose specimen

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